INDEX TO VOL. H. 



ABACUS, p. 164, 227 ; Note 359. 



Accademia delCimento, p. 335339. See Cimento. 



^Elian, his description of the Vale of Tempe, p. 13. 



JJneid, descriptions of nature in the, p. 18, 19. 



Africa, its supposed circumnavigation by Phoenician ships under Nechos II. 

 p. 125; Note 163. Phoenician colonies on the north-west of, p. 129; Notes 

 172, 173. Navigation of its western coast to the Cape of Good Hope, p. 255, 

 256 ; Note 397. 



Albertus Magnus, his garden in the Dominican Convent at Cologne, Note 124 ; 

 his influence in advancing natural knowledge and preparing the way for the 

 epoch of Columbus and the great oceanic discoveries, p. 246248 ; Note 381. 



Alexander, influence of his expeditions, conquests, and policy on the history of 

 the physical contemplation of the universe, p. 149165. 



Alexandrian Museum or Institute, p. 172177. 



Algebra, the algebraist Diophantus, p. 182. Of the Arabians and Indians, p. 225 

 228 ; Notes 355358. 



Alliaco (Cardinal), Alliacus, or Pierre d'Ailly, his Imago Mundi, p. 249, 250; 

 Notes 385, 386. 



Alphabetical writing communicated by the Phoenicians to the Greeks, p. 126, 127; 

 Notes 166, 167. 



Alps, apparent general indifference of the ancients to the grandeur of their see- 

 nery, p. 24. 



Amber, the ancient trade in, and the countries from whence it was obtained, p. 

 128, 129, 134 ; Note 171. 



America, influence of its discovery, p. 5256. Interval between the first and last 

 steps to that discovery from the foundation of Tartessus to the voyage of Eric 

 Rauda and to Columbus, p. 129, 130. Discovery of North America (Vinland), by 

 Leif, the son of Eric the Red, p. 233240 ; Note 362. Semi-fabulous or doubtful 

 accounts of earlier discoveries of North America (White Man's Land, cr 

 Virginia) by Irishmen, p. 236, 237 ; Note 371 : by Madoc, p. 238 ; Note 3/3. 



